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IDS Students Research Historic Mills and Homesteads of Middlefield
Eighth grade Independent Day School students have spent the first quarter of the school year researching the rich history of Middlefield, the town in which the Independent Day School is located.
Students at the Independent Day School have been busy researching local history this fall. "Eighth graders have been hard at work during the first quarter" says Liz Warner, a local historian and Placement Advisor at IDS. "They've spent months researching local mill privileges/factories and historic farmsteads in Middlefield. The students have conducted interviews, taken field trips, and used significant primary source research."
Featured presentations include Otis Smith Pistol Factory dam site and the Russell Manufacturing dam site. Presentations will also be done on the Smith Factory, the Metropolitan Washing Machine Company, and Baileyville factories. Area farms including Lymans and Jackson Hill Road farms have also been researched and findings will be presented this week.
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Presentations will be conducted in the Independent Day School theater from 10:15 - 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6 and Thursday, Dec. 8. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes in length. The order of events is as follows:
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Tuesday, December 6
-Otis Smith Pistol Factory dam site
-Metropolitan Washing Machine Company
-Lyman Family Farms
-Baileyville Factories
Thursday, December 8
-Russell Manufacturing dam site
-Mill sites south of Smith Factory
-Jackson Hill Rd Farms
Julia Kleederman extended an invitation to interested persons in the community. "We hope that you will be able to join us. Their work is quite phenomenal. The more the merrier!"
